It’s Coming

The left is ramping up their resistance of Trump, and now even local government officials and law enforcement are joining in the resistance.

The left is dumb, in that they are making this look more and more like an insurrection. Here is the insurrection act (pdf not hosted here at this site).

Trump will keep goading them, and they will stupidly continue their idiocy, until it reaches a level that permits him to use military force to suppress the insurrection.

Using Your Rights as Weapons

There are only two ways for humans to deal with each other- voluntary interaction or coercion. In a voluntary interaction, both people are free to choose whether or not they will do things with or for each other.

In a coercive interaction, one party chooses to use force (or the threat of it) to control the other. A great example of the two follows:

A man asks if I mind that he smokes a cigar while sitting next to me in the restaurant. I am free to say yes, or to say no.

Or he can do this:

There are those who would see the actions of the steak diner as being the coercive one, but that is not correct in my opinion. By lighting the cigar and smoking it in a restaurant, he is forcing everyone around him to smell his smoke. His actions are affecting others whether they like it or not. The only response to this is to respond with force of your own. The steak eating man asked nicely, but the smoker felt that he would be protected by society’s rules, and used them as a weapon to force others into smelling his cigar.

Now apply that to those who stand in the road as a form of protest. They have taken their right to protest and turned it into a form of coercion: society is being forced to bend to the protesters’ will, or the protesters are not going to allow anyone to get where they need to go.

People are using the rules of a polite society as weapons to be wielded against the very society which protects them and their right to protest.

There are those on the right who would do the same. Carrying an AR-15 into Starbucks, simply because it is legal to do so is a similar tactic.* Don’t be an asshole, and don’t lecture me about how it’s your right.

It’s possible to have the RIGHT to do something and still be an asshole.

Just food for thought…

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*You carry a handgun because you might be in a gunfight. If you WILL be in a gunfight, bring a long gun. Also remember that the best way to survive a gunfight is not to be in a gunfight in the first place. If your local Starbucks is that dangerous, perhaps you could get coffee elsewhere. There is a difference between being armed and being provocative.

Experts

Is there any field in which leftist liberals don’t consider themselves to be experts?

Shutting down Venezuela’s air defenses are well within the capabilities of the F/A-18G Growler (there were 2 squadrons of them in the theater) and the F-35. Any air defense system that was turned on would have been jammed or destroyed. Likewise, communications would have been shut down by those same systems, as well as by cyber warfare, and no orders to fire on anyone could have been issued.

But tell us how Trump can only be successful by throwing money around.

It doesn’t matter how he won, Trump won. Cry like the little bitches you are, but this was a successful operation, and nitpicking every little thing about it just makes you look weak and whiny.

Never Forget

Not only does NYC have a Muslim mayor, the entire state is celebrating Muslim heritage by lighting key buildings in green, even One World Trade Center, which wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for the contributions of the Muslim community.

Double Standards

The American Association of University Professors says that a professor is exercising his First Amendment rights when he gives a student with a different opinion a zero on an assignment.

They also say that students’ rights are violated when a professor refuses to say that the US is built upon student land.

if it wasn’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all. The left’s only real standard is forwarding the narrative and furthering theor cause. They otherwise have no core beliefs or principles.

The entire education system has been corrupted- from kindergarten all the way through college.

Federal Firearms License

Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced the Federal Firearm Licensing Actlegislation that would require that individuals obtain a federal firearm license before purchasing or receiving a firearm. A license would require:

  • Fingerprints and background checks
  • Signoff from local officials
  • Be required for each firearm
  • Expire in 5 years
  • even being arrested or accused of a crime is enough for denial
  • License holders would be placed on a ‘watch list’ called “RAP Back”
  • prohibit a licensee from giving or loaning a firearm to someone else without using a dealer

No. Just no. This is so incredibly unconstitutional.

Dangers of Imagination

A middle school in the Orlando area was placed on lockdown after a student was seen carrying a clarinet by an automated weapons detection system, which decided the child’s clarinet was actually a gun. My thoughts here are that your automated weapons detection system sucks. That isn’t how the principal of the school saw it, however.

A student was walking in the hallway, holding a musical instrument as if it were a weapon, which triggered the Code Red to activate. While there was no threat to campus, I’d like to ask you to speak with your student about the dangers of pretending to have a weapon on a school campus.

What danger was there, actually? None. No one was hurt. No one could be hurt. The real danger was that your system doesn’t work correctly, and it caused unnecessary panic. Not only that, but just like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, it creates alarm fatigue in that people will be less likely to believe future calls for lockdowns when they remember all of the times that they were forced to hide because of stupid nonsense like this.